Grade 2

Welcome to 2nd Grade

Welcome

Bienvenidos

Byenveni

Daily Schedule

This week we are asking,

How are we connected in and across communities?


¿Cómo se conecta la gente dentro de su comunidad y con otras comunidades?

If possible, play outside!

Cuando sea posible jueguen afuera


Don't forget to look at the pages for Art, Health, and Physical Education! Go back to the previous page (Early Childhood K0-2) to find the links.


Read Alouds

On each day, listen to and read a text. This week you will read two books on two different days.

Read the questions below each Read Aloud, and then talk with a family member and draw and write your ideas on a piece of paper or in a notebook.

Mama and Papa Have a Store

W5 Mama and Papa Have a Store.mp4

Talk, Draw, and Write

This memoir is centered around a store in Guatemala. As you listen and read, think about this setting.

What can you gather from the text about this one place in Guatemala?

Talk, Draw, and Write

The main character is part of a family that immigrated from China to Guatemala.

Based on information from the text, what is it like for Mama, Papa, and don Chema to have grown up in China and now live in Guatemala? What is it like for Amelia to be a member of an immigrant family?

Hung Liu, "My Grandmother, Wang Ju-shou"

Hung Liu slides

For the book Honoring Our Ancestors, Harriet Rohmer asked artists about people who have influenced their lives and their art.

This selection is written and illustrated by the Chinese artist Hung Liu.

Click on the speaker to listen to the text.

Talk, Draw, and Write:

What can we learn about how Hung Liu thinks of her identity or her grandmother’s identity from these images?

Growing Up Pedro

W4 Growing Up Pedro.mp4

Talk, Draw, and Write

How was life in a new place challenging for Ramón and Pedro?

Talk, Draw, and Write

What can we learn about the Dominican Republic through Pedro’s story?

Literacy Lessons

Practice words with r-controlled vowels

with Ms. Serena

Vowel teams ai and ay

with Ms. Scordino

Vowel teams ai and ay, part 1

with Ms. Mizell

Vowel teams ai and ay, part 2

with Ms. Mizell

Closed syllables

Open syllables

Tap and sound out these words!

Practice Reading with a Book or an App

Clever Backpack:

Clever is a “portal” where you can access many apps used by your student’s school or classroom teacher(s). Visit www.bostonpublicschools.org/backpack to access Clever.

Instructions to login are available here: https://bostonpublicschools.helpdocs.io/article/ioostn4l79-how-to-access-clever-at-home


Take some quiet time each day.

During this time, you might read, draw, snuggle a stuffed animal, watch a favorite show, or just lie down and let your imagination take over. Listen to... some quiet music, a chapter of Charlotte's Web, or a podcast (Wow in the World! for science; Stories Podcast or Circle Round for stories).

Close your eyes and listen

Chapter 5.

Charlotte

Chapter 5.mp3

Chapter 6.

Summer Days

Chapter 6.mp3

Chapter 7.

Bad News

Chapter 7.mp3

Chapter 8.

A Talk at Home

Chapter 8.mp3

Math Games

Juguemos con las matemáticas

Math Games

This week you and your child will be engaging in measurement activities. Children will measure with different objects and with their own bodies. If you have a ruler at home, you can add it to the activities as well. You will also continue to play number games from previous weeks. Have fun!

Monday: Measuring with Shoes and Close to 100

Tuesday: Listening to Inchworm and a Half and Comparing Jumps

Wednesday: Plus 9 or Minus 9 Bingo and Measuring with Objects

Thursday: Collect $1.00 and SPLAT!

Friday: Your child’s choice of activities from Math games or measuring activities of the week.

Juegos de Matemáticas

Esta semana usted y sus niños/as realizarán una variedad de actividades de medir con varios objetos y sus propios cuerpos. También jugarán juegos de números de las semanas anteriores. ¡Que se diviertan!

El lunes: Medimos con calzados y Cerca de 100

El martes: Escucha el cuento Inchworm and a Half y Comparamos saltos

El miércoles: Bingo: Más o menos 9 y Medimos con objetos

El jueves: Reunir $1.00 y SPLAT!

El viernes: Su hijo/a elije las actividades preferidas de la semana de Juegos con números o actividades de clasificación y encuestas.

Playing Off the Screen - Jugamos sin pantallas

Use materials from your home to play math games!

Look around your house and use your imagination. Food containers, coins, paper from mail you will trash, corks, tops, buttons are great resources. Do you have dice and cards?

Preparo juegos de matemática en casa

Observe alrededor de su casa y use su imaginación. ¿Ve cajas de cartón, monedas, papeles que llegaron en el correo, corchos, tapitas, botones? Todos son excelentes materiales. ¿Tienen dados y naipes/barajas? Los podremos usar también.

Yoga Pretzels!

Try a few different yoga poses. Take your time.

After you do each pose, ask yourself, How does that make me feel?


Prueba hacer un par de poses de yoga. Tómate tu tiempo. Después de hacer cada pose, pregúntate: ¿Cómo me hace sentir?
Yoga Pretzels Week 4

Storytelling and Story Acting

Tell a story about some characters who are moving from one place to another. What do they bring with them? What challenges do they face? What surprises them about the place where they arrive? What do they miss about the place they left?

Cuenta la historia de personajes que se mudan de un lugar. ¿Qué llevan con ellos? ¿Qué desafíos encuentran en el camino? ¿Qué los sorprende sobre el lugar al que llegan? ¿Qué extrañan del lugar que dejaron atrás?

Science

Since Lesson 2 depends on the weather, you can change the order in which you do these lessons.

2nd Grade Science Week 5 Lesson 1
2nd Grade Science Week 5 Lesson 2


Afternoon Projects

Continue making and playing different kinds of instruments! You might use: plastic containers, rubber bands, string, metal bowls or pans, wooden spoons or sticks, straws, metal spoons... What else can you use? What different sounds can you make?

Play along to a song that you love!

Ask your family members to play with you to make a band!

Continúa haciendo y tocando diferentes tipos de instrumentos. Puedes usar recipientes de plástico, bandas elásticas, cacerolas, cucharas de madera o ramitas, sorbetes, cucharas de metal, etc. ¿Qué otro instrumento puedes hacer? ¿Qué sonidos puedes producir?

Canta y haz el acompañamiento musical de una canción que te gusta.

Pídele a los miembros de tu familia que te acompañen para armar una banda de músicos.

These printed packets were passed out at meal delivery sites